Outside The Society: The Life Of Street Sleepers In Hangzhou

There is a special group named street sleepers which make a living in the city while being excluded from society in the city. They shuttle in the bustling streets during the day, sleep in the open air in the dark corners and that is their life in city. Although they left their hometown for a better environment for survival originally, life in the city is not as good as what it was in their imagination. They are ostracized because of various limitations. Having no ability to change the situation, neither can they find institutional way to guarantee the survival condition nor being integrate into the urban social, as a result, they choose to refer themselves to the other street sleepers, seeking a livelihood in unconventional way. Far away from the country society, they soon become a member of street sleepers and then a community outside the urban society come into being, where the mainstream values and norms lose its restriction and a series of new rules rise in response to street conditions.